At about 6 p.m., protesters gathered at South Avenue and Henry Street, where Bridgeton police officers Braheme Days and Roger Worley fired the shots that killed Reid following a traffic stop on Dec. 30 at about 9:20 p.m.

Just a couple hours before the march, police revealed information about the person driving the vehicle in which Reid was a passenger that night.

Authorities stopped a car driven by Leroy Tutt, 46, of Long Branch in Monmouth County, according to Capt. Michael Gaimari of the Bridgeton Police Department.

Authorities said a gun was “revealed” during the stop, prompting the two officers to fire their weapons at Reid, who was a passenger in the car, according to previous reports.

According to Gaimari, Tutt was taken into custody the night of the incident, but released without being charged.

Gaimari said that the Bridgeton Police Department has no plans to charge Tutt, and that any future action would be up to the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office, which is handling the investigation.

“They will decide whether to follow-up with any criminal charges,” Gaimari said. “But as of that night, we have not filed any charges.”

During the march, rallying cries were chanted, like “Hands up, don’t shoot,” “No justice, no peace,” which were also spoken by protesters in Ferguson, Mo., and New York, following the police-related killings of black men in those communities.

The Bridgeton protest was organized by Sequion Gullet, crisis coordinator of the National Awareness Alliance, based in Penns Grove.

Walter Hudson, chairman and founder of the alliance, was one of the leaders of the march. Hudson, a member of the Penns Grove-Carneys Point school board in Salem County, was indicted in October on charges he assaulted a Penns Grove police officer during a fight at the district's middle school.

The widow of Reid, 38-year-old Lawanda Reid of Seabrook, spoke to the crowd, thanking them for their support, saying that she hoped something positive would come of her husband's death.

From South Avenue and Henry Street, the group walked about a mile to the Cumberland County Courthouse on West Broad Street, where Gullet, Hudson and Lawanda Reid addressed the crowd.

“I know he is so proud of us right now,” Lawanda Reid said. “He is proud of every one of you. Thank you for keeping tonight peaceful. There may be a next time, but I pray that it stops here with my husband.”

Protesters held signs with slogans like: “Justice, justice, we need justice,” “Shot 7 times by police,” and “Shot and killed, peace and justice.”

"I'm calling every one of you here to leave with a different mentality," Gullet said into the megaphone. "Change is hard. We need to hold ourselves accountable. We need to act differently so we are perceived in some kind of way, and you all know what I am talking about."

" ... This is a call to action, to get the community involved, not keep people complacent," he added. "Because things like this happen when people stay silent. We need to change the mentality that brings about these kind of killings.”

Gullet said he wants to see “old school policing” — where police are a part of the community they serve.

“Police need to be pillars of our communities,” he said.

Many residents also said throughout the evening that they want a better relationship with the police.

Bridgeton resident Darlene Miller said she was out in the freezing cold walking for the young men killed by law enforcement.

"We are walking for the ones that came before us and the ones after us, our nephews, our sons — we are tired of them killing people for nothing," she said.

Bridgeton City Mayor Albert Kelly led the group in a prayer earlier in the evening.

Driving in front of the marchers were law enforcement vehicles from the Bridgeton Police Department and Cumberland County Sheriff's Department.

While outside the front of the courthouse, speaking loudly into a megaphone, Gullet rallied the crowd at the end and said: "This is bigger than our egos. This is for one cause — justice for Jerame."

Dec. 30 was not the first time Reid and Days had encountered one another. On Aug. 3, Days was one of the officers involved in an arrest of Reid when he had been stopped by police at South Avenue and Henry Street on his bicycle for a traffic violation. A police officer attempted to arrest Reid, previous reports said, but he struggled and was pepper sprayed.

Reid was ultimately charged with obstruction, resisting arrest, possession of narcotics and failure to appear in Millville Municipal Court.

In addition, Reid had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting at three New Jersey State Police troopers in 1994. Authorities went to Reid's home to issue him a warrant regarding a stolen gun; however he ran and exchanged gunfire with police, according to previous reports.

Hudson said that Wednesday night would not be the last march and that he and his organization are communicating with civil rights leaders throughout the state to organize a statewide march.